Charles Adams Platt and George Henry Hall
The Clover Market, Cairo
1880-1881
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching with printed tone, Sheet: 223 × 267 mm. (8 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
Image: 151 × 202 mm. (5 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.92
James L. Claghorn, sold to T. Harrison Garrett, 1885.
National Academy of Design, New York, 'New York Etching Club Exhibition,' 1882, no. 215. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 'Exhibition of American Etchings,' Apr. 11-May 9, 1881, no. 347 ($3).
Koehler, Sylvester R., 'The Works of American Etchers, 25. Charles A. Platt,' American Art Review 2 (1881), p. 150. Morgan, Keith N., Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 'Shaping an American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt,' 1995, p. 36 (not in exhibition).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: Signed in plate, BL Corner: 'CA.P. aqua ft.'; in plate BR: 'The Clover Market, Cairo-GH Hall'; LR margin (pencil): 'C.A. Platt-' and below (pencil): 'E/-'; BR Corner (pencil, enclosed in diamond): '4885'; and below (pencil): '3'.
